Back in the heady pre-Covid days of 2015, Oxford Dictionaries picked the “face with tears of joy” as its word of the year. It makes sense, when you think about it, that the laugh-cry emoji has ...

A driver who was stopped for texting behind the wheel claimed he was only sending "a laughing emoji" to his girlfriend - prompting police to respond with emojis of their own. The man was caught by ...

A sign of their grounded and stable nature, the Bull is reliable, weathers any storm, and has loyalty that runs deeper than a ...

Who creates the symbols so many of us now use to communicate? How do they get on our phones? And why can’t we all agree on ...